Reasons for wanting to become an Army officer

[Daxx]

The only reason to be an Army Officer is so you can wear tweed after you retire.

 

[Auld-Yin]

Anyone mentioned Stepping Stone to Parliament?

 

[monkey123]

to trust you not to waste the loyalty and confidence of Private Fucknuts.

I thought the army was all about posh cnuts telling thick cnuts what to do ?

 

[MoleBath]

The only reason to be an Army Officer is so you can wear tweed after you retire.

Thus being properly dressed as a bursar

 

[Daxx]

Thus being properly dressed as a bursar

Or Civil Servant

 

[Dashing_Chap]

It seems that the reasons for wanting to be an officer have changed over time, in the past I think social class had the most to do with it as you could purchase a commission.

Personally, I think I would have made a brilliant First World War staff officer. I look quite good in a uniform, I can grow a moustache, I'm generally quite incompetent and I much prefer leisure to doing any actual work. Occasionally I'm also over-confident and speak with an air of authority about things I know F/A about.

I'd also be quite prepared to sacrifice the lives of the rougher, working-class men for the sake of my own advancement.

 

[Paymaster]

Thus being properly dressed as a bursar

I always wanted to be the bursar of a big girl’s school

that’s big girls not a big school!

 

[Dashing_Chap]

I always wanted to be the bursar of a big girl’s school

that’s big girls not a big school!

Crack on then mate.

 

[Caecilius]

don't be a dick

If only more people paid attention to that.

 

[Paymaster]

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Crack on then mate.

Not that big!

 

[W21A]

I thought the army was all about thick posh cnuts telling cnuts what to do ?

Fixed, etc.

 

[Donny]

I always wanted to be the bursar of a big girl’s school

that’s big girls not a big school!

At the risk of excessive pedantry what you’ve written actually refers to the school of a big girl (singular), rather than of big girls (plural). If you’d placed the apostrophe just one letter to the right you might have been able to indulge your fantasies.

 

[Blogg]

Anyone mentioned Stepping Stone to Parliament?

That's becoming a Lefty Human Rights Lawyer in Islington.

Do try to keep up at the back.

 

[Auld-Yin]

That's becoming a Lefty Human Rights Lawyer in Islington.

Do try to keep up at the back.

You think?

Service History: How Many MPs Have Military Experience?

Six hundred and fifty Members of Parliament were elected following the 2019 General Election on 12 December.

www.forces.net

 

[truck_trasher]

Mid eighties we had an occifer-cadet who answered the question with "So I can sit in the landrover when it's raining". As far as I know he continued working in McDonalds or somewhere similar.

 

[Whiskybreath]

the core activity of Army officers, which is commanding soldiers.

Commanding troops, managing the military life of soldiers, shurely.

 

[Just_plain_you]

If only more people paid attention to that.

It always make me worry when people say that. How much of a problem with people behaving like a dick do you have to have for that to need stating explicitly?

 

[Chef]

You think?

Service History: How Many MPs Have Military Experience?

Six hundred and fifty Members of Parliament were elected following the 2019 General Election on 12 December.

www.forces.net

The spread of ex-forces over the parties is telling:

'Forty-one represent the Conservative Party, while two are Labour members.' Plus the DUP has two members who've served in the UDR.

 

[Harry Skinters]

The spread of ex-forces over the parties is telling:

'Forty-one represent the Conservative Party, while two are Labour members.' Plus the DUP has two members who've served in the UDR.

I think a lot of us on here wondered why Labour didn't make more of Dan Jarvis?
He now seems to have been sidelined into Mayor of Sheffield.

 

[Glad_its_all_over]

I think a lot of us on here wondered why Labour didn't make more of Dan Jarvis?
He now seems to have been sidelined into Mayor of Sheffield.

He was distinctly a fish out of water as far as the Leader's Office and the NEC were concerned. A number of senior Party apparatchiks couldn't even bring themselves to speak to him. He was fine with the Parliamentary party, most MPs, with a few exceptions, are sensible, moderate folk, the Party hierarchy, maybe not so much.....

Bad enough being an ex-Para officer, imagine if he'd been Jewish as well.